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Photography Tips | Get Closer
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Be Not Afraid To Get Closer | Thaipusam | Batu Caves Selangor “If Your Pictures Aren’t Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough.” – Robert Capa – Robert Capa, founder of MagnumPhotos once said that “If Your Pictures Aren’t Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough.” Meaning that, sometimes you need to get closer to your subject for much stronger photograph. Yes sometimes like in sports for an example, you really can’t get closer to your subject because doing so will distract the movement of the sportsman, normally sports like football, tennis or athletic, you really need a telephoto lens in order to get “closer” to your subject “optically”,…
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Child Portraiture | Extreme Close-Up | Expressive Portraiture
© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of My Son | Extreme Close Up | Expressive Portraiture “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” – Robert Capa – Extreme portrait shot of my son above were taken with my favorite 50mm lens shoot at ISO 200 at n aperture of f2, I just add the grain in Photoshop to make it look like film effect. I rarely shoot my son picture at Higher ISO, unless I don’t have much choice like in the book store for an example where the light is quite dim. This is a crop version from the actual photograph where full head and shoulder were in…